Joseph Brant (or Joseph Thayendanegea as he often signed his correspondence) emerged as the most prominent Iroquois leader in the royal cause during the American Revolution. After the war he led a substantial portion of the Iroquois to settle on the Grand River, at what is now the Six Nations Reserve, near Brantford (named, of course, after him). Several artists recorded his likeness but this woodcut made in London in 1776 is indicative of the level of society, both white and Indian, in which this truly remarkable man circulated. Brant's grandfather was one of the Four Kings who had their portraits painted when they visited London (see Canada's Visual History, volume 44, slide 5).
